Still Loving You Nonetheless novel Chapter 14

Mister Yoseph was slightly taken aback but replied, “Not that I’m aware of, sir. The psychiatric hospital is having a dinner party tonight.”

“Did Meredith join?”

“Sir, I heard from the warden that Miss Meredith is not allowed to leave her room. Hence I think that she wouldn’t be attending the dinner party.”

“True,” Josiah scoffed.

Josiah knew that Meredith was a woman with pride. It was impossible that she would lower herself and attend a dinner with a group of patients with mental issues.

“Sir, if you would like to hear about Miss Meredith, I can call the warden right away.”

“It’s fine, leave it,” Josiah said.

Though Josiah rejected his secretary’s request, he could not help himself but dialed the warden’s phone number on his phone.

However, the warden was not picking up.

Meredith used up almost all the strength in her and finally delivered her child.

Meredith, who was still in a daze, vaguely heard Miss Linda who was saying, “Throw the child into the fire.”

Upon hearing this, Meredith, who almost lost consciousness, quickly moved her body that was in pain and pleaded weakly, “No, please don’t kill my baby…”

Reaching out her hands, Meredith struggled and finally grabbed onto Miss Rosa’s shirt. She fell off from the bed that was now stained with red blood. Meredith desperately wanted to snatch her baby from Miss Rosa’s hands.

“Please don’t kill my baby, I’m begging you…”

Staring at Meredith who was crawling on the floor, Miss Rosa flung away her hands ruthlessly and walked out of the room without even looking back.

“No – !” Seeing Miss Rosa disappearing from her view, Meredith started crying her heart out.

Meredith finally got up on her feet, but before she could even chase after Miss Rosa, she fell onto the ground again and lost consciousness.

Meredith had a dream. In that dream, she saw her child being trapped in an ocean of fire and her child was reaching out to her, crying out, “Mommy, save me, please help me…”

Meredith tried her best to pull her child out of the fire but she could not move her legs. All she could do was to see her baby being burned alive while she did nothing.

“No! My baby!” Meredith shouted and opened her eyes.

But what she saw was Ysabelle who was scoffing at her with an evil look on her face.

Tears started welling up in her eyes. In her hoarse voice, Meredith asked, “Ysabelle Layne, where is my child?”

“Your child?” Ysabelle smirked and said, “It burned to death. Right there in the woodshed.”

Meredith was startled as she thought to herself. ‘So the dream was real!’

Her child did ask for her help!

Struggling, Meredith fell off from her bed. While crying her eyes out, Meredith staggered and stumbled her way back to the woodshed.

The woodshed was already gone. All that it left were ashes.

Not caring about her safety or whether her hands would get burned, Meredith rushed into the pile of ashes and started digging frantically while she whimpered, “Baby, my poor baby, where are you? Mummy’s here for you!”

But she could not find her baby no matter how much she tried to dig.

Towering over Meredith whose limbs were sprawled across the ground, bawling her eyes out, Ysabelle crouched down and sniggered coldly, “Meredith Leighton, Josiah was the one who gave the orders. So, you should be blaming him. Oh wait, or maybe you should blame yourself for marrying a man who doesn’t love you at all.”

Meredith dug her fingers deep into the soil as if the soil were both Josiah and Ysabelle.

Meredith was fuming in rage and despair. She despised and resented both of them.